Program - Friday, February 5, 2010
Accessible Rich Internet Applications / Understand and use WAI-ARIA
Venue: WIPO Headquarters, Room B
| Time | Topic |
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| 8h45 – 9h10 | Registration for Accessible Rich Internet Applications / Understand and use WAI-ARIA
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9h15 – 10h30 |
Trainer: Andrew Ronksley, Web Accessibility Consultant, Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) JavaScript Widgets and AJAX - what are the accessibility problems? |
| 10h30 – 10h50 | Coffee break |
| 10h50 – 12h00 |
ARIA Markup - an overview of the ARIA specification and the new attributes that can be added to markup to improve accessibility. |
| 12h00 – 13h30 | Lunch |
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13h30 – 15h00 |
ARIA Markup continued. ARIA Tools - learn about some of the tools available to help you investigate and test ARIA implementations. Live Examples - see example widgets being read through a screen reader both with and without ARIA markup to see and hear the difference between them. |
| 15h00 – 15h20 | Coffee break |
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15h20 – 16h15 |
The future for ARIA - learn about where ARIA currently is and how support is coming along in browsers, assistive technologies and popular JavaScript frameworks. |
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16h15 – 16h30 |
Closing of the Workshop: Jarle Martinsen, Head, User Services Division, Information Services Department (IS), International Telecommunication Union (ITU) |